Willem de Vlamingh

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exploration of Australia

...on a post on the northern end of the island, now called Cape Inscription. This vestige of his visit served as a method of communication with later navigators. Indeed, in 1696 another Dutch explorer,
Willem de Vlamingh, landed on Dirk Hartog Island, found Hartog’s plate, replaced it with a newly inscribed dish, and sent the original to Amsterdam, where it can now be seen in the Rijksmuseum....

The Dutch explorer
Willem de Vlamingh noted black swans living in the estuary of the Swan River in January 1697, and the first English settlement in the area, established in June 1829, was referred to as the Swan River Colony. Its bank notes, issued in the early 1830s, showed a swan, as did the first newspaper, the
Swan River Guardian, in 1836. In the same year, the first issue...